Art and The Monsters is a podcast about art and all the things that get in the way of making it. Today we'll be discussing the pernicious monster known as the artist's shame. There are two main ways that shame negatively impacts us, as artists, and that is through cultural and existential expectations, but we can try to overcome these thorny shame spires by examining our shame as a signal. What is your shame trying to tell you? How can you acknowledge your shame in order to stop fighting it all the time?